- Overwatch 2’s long-awaited PvE content received a lukewarm reception
- The reason for this is that Blizzard will not add many of the expected features
- The company responded that it will include more content later this year
Season 6 will see Overwatch 2 receive the long-anticipated PvE mode, but fans are already criticizing Blizzard for not including everything it had promised years ago.
Blizzard Announced PvE Roadmap
It seems like Overwatch 2 has been going through a lot of trouble recently, with the latest one being a somewhat negative reception of the game’s long-awaited PvE mode. Such a mode has been on the minds of the community for years, with Blizzard apparently working on it for a long time.
On May 16, the fans were finally updated on the mode, with Blizzard presenting a content roadmap filled with an assortment of surprises including a long-awaited launch of the PvE story campaign. The mode that’s been teased since BlizzCon 2019 will arrive in Overwatch 2’s Season 6, but it seems that fans may be disappointed as Executive Producer Jared Neuss confirmed that ambitious parts of PvE promised will not be included at launch. Hero missions and talent trees won’t be released with the launch of the mode, which is a significant change from what Blizzard had first revealed.
Naturally, many fans felt Blizzard could have done much more and are not happy with what the company is going to release once the next season rolls out. Many pointed out that the lack of adequate updates will drive away players as it did with Overwatch 1 and the consistent content draught it used to suffer from.
“Highkey a disaster for OW2 and a horrible look for Blizzard/the Overwatch team, especially dropping that announcement after 30 minutes of Starwatch,” wrote one user in a Reddit post discussing the matter. The post reached over 30 000 likes in less than 24 hours, showing just how many players have been disgruntled about Blizzard’s lackluster update.
Blizzard Responds to the Backlash
With so many fans criticizing the company’s decisions, Jared Neuss has taken to Twitter in an attempt to clarify what exactly is in the plans for the PvE mode. He pointed out that despite Hero Mode and Talents being cut from OW2, there’s still PvE content coming this year. This would include story missions, new cinematics, co-op events, and single-player Hero Mastery missions coming later in 2023.
Neuss also talked about how it’s been a rather challenging day for those in the Overwatch community, both the players and the developers. Despite acknowledging that many fans are disgruntled at the company’s decision, Neuss thinks this is the proper direction that will allow Blizzard to tell the stories of Overwatch appropriately.But the reputational damage has already been done and is only compounded by other blunders, such as a recent Overwatch 2 patch breaking Doomfist’s block ability, making him virtually useless against certain heroes. However Blizzard plans to release the PvE content throughout the year, it will certainly not have an easy time appeasing the fandom.
